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Eastern North Carolina's Wilson County Speedway featured two superb dirt track talents wheeling a #15 on it's half-mile surface in the 1970s. Frederickburg, Virginia's Al Grinnan (above) was captured by RR member Tim Hamm in 1975 and that's Grifton, North Carolina's Carl Horton in Tim's 1976 photo below.
Dale Earnhardt spent two years wheeling 1982 and 1983 #15 Wrangler Jeans Thunderbirds for legendary car owner, Bud Moore, scoring three Cup wins.
Russ Thompson photo above
During the same 1982-1983 time period, Dale drove the #15 for his former father-in-law, Robert Gee in the new Budweiser Late Model Sportsman touring series, winning the first ever race at Daytona in 1982.
Dale Earnhardt in the Robert Gee #15 leads Charlie Luck in a NASCAR Budweiser LMS event.